Games iconic game archaeology: miscellaneous artifact pile [image heavy!!] (Read 6185 times)

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The Hall of Tortured Souls easter egg game in Microsoft Excel '95

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwg9eLHZZRo
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1996 retrospective mini-documentary about Oregon Trail (also a promo for Oregon Trail II)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jyah4kQWkI
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"fuck graphics" text adventure ads
 
 

 
 

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Mario enforcing prohibition in the Mushroom Kingdom

 

cool jacket

 

bank robbery paraphernalia

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imaaagine maaaariooo aand sooooooniiiiiiiiiiicccc.....................
 
lllllivvviiiiiinnn toooogeeeetheeerrr innn peeeeeeaaaaaaaaaceeeee, yuhh~~huuuu~uuu
 
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also, this is really about the tabletop game rather than the SNES or Genesis games, but my god check the eighties styles and "cyberspace" in this bad boy, circa 1990:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w
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Diggin' Up the Abandoned Fan-Sequel Project Graveyard

Part I: Monkey Island
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 


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cabinet for Computer Space (1971), first-ever commercial arcade game....
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very elegant design
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I remember seeing that cabinet used in a ~*~futuristic~*~ movie at some point (forget which one) and I have wanted it ever since.
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ahh yeah, Soylent Green had a white one


according to wiki p. it also turned up in Jaws but I can't find a screenshot...
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if only mass electronics had kept up the motif of a mysterious robed figure, meekly offering forth its control panel
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Oh yeah it WAS Soylent Green, thanks for that post it was driving me sorta crazy not remembering what movie that was.
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want the white one even more (i am so superficial)
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John Romero recommends the Mad Catz Panther XL Joystick (1998)


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denzquix, only tangentially on-topic, but i highly recommend you take a trip to the Cambridge Computer Museum... it's really good
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ohh yeah, I should do, I keep meaning to go... thanks for the reminder!
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Timothy Leary Video Games Unearthed in Archive

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promotion for the original Xbox at the Makuhari Messe food hall in Tokyo, 2001
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